Handschuh, Corinna (2017) Nominal category marking on personal names: A typological study of case and definiteness. Folia Linguistica 51 (2).
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Other URL: http://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2017-0017
Abstract
This paper investigates differences in encoding the two nominal categories case and definiteness between proper nouns (more precisely anthroponyms) and common nouns, based on a maximally diverse 40-language sample. These differences can be found in a number of unrelated languages, though the majority of languages appear to not distinguish between proper and common nouns. However, this ...

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Item type: | Article | ||||
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Date: | 2017 | ||||
Institutions: | Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft | ||||
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Keywords: | ; personal name; common noun; case marking; definiteness; typology | ||||
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Language > 400 Language, Linguistics | ||||
Status: | Published | ||||
Refereed: | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
Created at the University of Regensburg: | Yes | ||||
Item ID: | 39181 |